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...German embassy in Athens. Under the reproachful eyes of the black-draped widows, he asked about what might be done as a measure of atonement: some looms, perhaps, to establish a small tapestry-weaving business, with equipment, dyes and technical assistance to come from Germany; 10,000 poplar trees to provide wood for the crates Greece needs to ship its fruit crops, livestock to increase the village's pitiful herd of 100 cows to 1,000 or more; a training program which would send 30 Kalavryta youths to Bavaria each year to learn good farming methods...
Critic Lewis Mumford's observation that we are living in a "paper civilization" is no news to TIME's production people. An average issue of TIME uses 485 tons of paper, made from Canadian spruce, western hemlock and Lake States poplar. But TIME's paper suppliers are all engaged in replenishing as well as using their valuable natural resources. All the companies from which TIME buys paper-Mead Corp., Consolidated Water Power and Paper Co., Crown Zellerbach Corp. and St. Regis Paper Co.-are actively engaged in conservation and reforestation programs, planting millions of seedlings each year...
...Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately on the newly rich; back of every exquisite dinner stands a temperamental chef with handlebar mustaches. It has been Bemelmans' art to convince his U.S. public not only that such a dream world exists...
...hold a pre-World War I car, its brass shined to a dazzle, its head lamps staring proudly ahead, its exhaust pipes exposed for all admiring eyes to see. There are even some, as delicately geared as Author Purdy, who can close their eyes and "imagine a string-straight, poplar-lined Route Nationale in France on a summer's day. That growing dot in the middle dis tance is a sky-blue Bugatti coupe, rasping down from Paris to Nice at no miles an hour...
Heal Thyself. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., while rushing to fight a fire, Fireman Bimel Wheelis detected smoke fumes nearer home, discovered his own hat was ablaze...